Sunday, April 3, 2016

Other strategies for Dubai - Punks and Hooligans

Honestly, I'm not sure yellow and black
leggings would be my first fashion
choice if I were starting a gang....
I've been playing around with Ace's level 36 Hooligans and have found they are getting pretty respectable scores all by themselves in Dubai Expert.

Most of the time, I've gotten all three rewards and get around 1500-1600.

Some tips if you want to borrow them and have a go:

  • Use flare often to help increase their dodge
  • Use drone geyser to put the hooligans in walled off areas with commando or desperado type units


One advantage I've found with using the borrowed hooligans only as they are much easier to play with on fast-forward than explosive units, which often need to be used with precision, or full teams, where you have a number of units to be thinking about. I also got consistently higher points than with a level 30 doomsday/killaton only. So if your level is mid-30s or above, have a go.

Punks working the more classic
red/black regalia
Matty has been playing with my L40 punks. He's found that, when accompanied by a team of level 1 units, he can regularly get a perfect score on Dubai Expert. Those units are two L1 foreman (to take care of buildings), a L1 reanimator and an L1 mortician. You've probably got these units, so this is worth a try. You might need to be L40 or above for this to work well. Let us know how you go, so we can add in information about the limits of these strategies :-).




Playing World Zombination using Bluestacks Android Emulator

BlueStacks is so easy to use my 6 year old was able
to find and install his favourite game My Singing Monsters
If you are temporarily without access to your phone or tablet (e.g., while it is charging), or you want to try playing WZ on a desktop or laptop, you can run WZ using an android emulator, like BlueStacks 2.

I've used both BlueStacks and BlueStacks 2 and they work fine on my desktop. (Unfortunately, BlueStacks 2 seems to crash more for me than BlueStacks did - I've had a few crashes with 2 and never had any with BlueStacks 1).

It can be a little tricky at first using the mouse and scrolling through lots of units (especially 500) is a bit of a pain, but I've found it very useful to have as a back up way to play.

Using Bluestacks 2 to play WZ

If you haven't already, you'll need to register an account first to be able to play on another device, (Click on settings cog icon to do register your account - which is just entering your email and setting a password)

Once you've done this:

1) Go to www.bluestacks.com
2) Follow instructions to install (install file is about 260 MB)
3) Once installed, run Bluestacks
4) Click on search and type in World Zombination
5) Run World Zombination
6) Use your WZ account email and password to log in

BlueStacks is free to play as long as you install the "recommended apps" when you are promoted to by the periodic adverts.